TALKING Easter

Ok so that's probably a misleading title, but its the truth. This simple meaning of it is. Zack, Keli's son, is now talking coherently, like not single words that may or may not have enough meaning to understand what he wants, but on Easter he may not have been speaking perfect english but it was phrases and sentences, and I could have held a conversation with him. A few days after we left they were telling me his language skills were increasing more and he was telling stories. So I made this blog post to mark the date of when Zack went from gibbering words to talking.

Ok well I think this blog will be shortish for mine. I know everyone reading this is like "if only". So I'm still doing my stupid depressed thing. I (re)learned dissing yourself in Judaism is a sin, the term vaguely translates to evil tongue. So I'm trying again to minimize self criticism . . . at least out loud. I think I also learned another gauge for how shitty I'm doing. It's based off of how often I lose my keys and how long they stay missing. If you want a relative comparison, I have lost a lot of stuff including my keys a number of times, usually its for about 2-3 minutes and once a month, I usually don't even consider that losing my keys. Recently my keys have been lost probably 50% of the time. This last time was for like 4 days. It was even in any place that should have been that hard, and its not that I didn't look its just I'm such a mess.
I get left alone for like 5 minutes though and I get into this panicked mode like today I was actually sweating. I've eaten like one meal, today totaling: 1 bowl mac & cheese, 1 mini Reese's cup, 1 pastry and . . . some milk. By the way its 9:30pm.
I want someone to have as a personal whine bag, but people have that thing called a life, and so some way or another I'll decide i can't use them entirely for one reason or another.
Finally I want to go see Libbi tonight but I really don't want to leave my house with out a buddy, especially where there will be other people, even more so that the only person I will know there will be on stage, and I really don't want to see that many people. . . even more so that while i normally prefer people breaking social norms and interactivity from our media; Today, I really want to minimze interaction with everyone I don't know.
Ok so some quotes
"No good deed goes unpunished".
-- Clare Booth Luce, in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed".
-- Sydney Smith
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down".
-- Robert Benchley

"People will buy anything that is one to a customer".
-- Sinclair Lewis

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything".
-- Samuel Johnson, (attributed)